Covering Quote by James Hervey

The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine…

— Janet Fitch

The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

— Sara Teasdale

“The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths. But those…

— Karen Ranney

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them…

— Silas House

“It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around…

— Kilgore Trout

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

— Jacqueline Carey

The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It was a garden, a walled garden. Overgrown but with beautiful bones visible still. Someone had cared for this garden once. The remains of…

— Kate Morton

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

— Joshua Reynolds

“…the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.”

— Laurie Beth Jones